Patent decision

BL number

O/114/08

Concerning rights in

GB0521120.6 and GB0608130.1

Hearing Officer

Mr P Marchant

Decision date

17 April 2008

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

BlackLight Power Inc

Provisions discussed

Patents Act 1977 Sections 1(1)(c) and 14(3)

Keywords

Industrial application, Sufficiency

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The applications relate respectively to a plasma reactor and a laser, both dependent for their operation on a “new hydrogen species”. The new hydrogen species involves the electron (the hydrogen atom has one electron) existing in a lower energy state than the lowest possible energy state recognised in standard physics. This arrangement was described in a new theory of atomic physics. The hearing officer considered the likely validity of the new theory. He decided, on the basis of the experimental evidence provided and the acceptance of the theory by the physics community generally, that it was probably not valid. The applications were consequently refused for lack of industrial application and insufficiency.

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